At first glance Esther Okade seems like a normal 10-year-old. She loves dressing up as Elsa from “Frozen,” playing with Barbie dolls and going to the park or shopping. But what makes the British-Nigerian youngster stand out is the fact that she’s also a university undergraduate. Esther, from Walsall, an industrial town in the UK’s […]

Ola Orekunrin was studying to become a doctor in the UK a few years ago when her younger sister fell seriously ill while traveling in Nigeria. The 12-year-old girl, who'd gone to the West African country on holiday with relatives, needed urgent care but the nearest hospital couldn't deal with her condition.
Orekunrin and her family immediately began looking for an air ambulance service to rapidly transport the girl, a sickle cell anemia sufferer, to a more suitable healthcare facility. They searched all across West Africa but were stunned to find out there was none in the whole region.

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Pride Nigeria (PNGR) aims to showcase the very best of a great nation; a people who, despite the 'Everest' of odds stacked against them, are doing their best. We also hope this sparks (or should I say adds to) a discuss on moving forward rather than the same old rhetoric and rehearsing of the obvious. We also plan to challenge stereotypes of Nigeria as sometimes propagated by some of the western media*. What we are not is a race magazine nor are we focused on the ills of colonialism even though it might come up from time to time; we are looking forward with eyes of hope.